{"id":18279,"date":"2018-06-11T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=18279"},"modified":"2018-06-06T21:47:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T02:47:58","slug":"what-does-this-forensic-accountant-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/what-does-this-forensic-accountant-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does This Forensic Accountant Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/financial-statement-frauds.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignright wp-image-18149 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/financial-statement-frauds-285x300.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/financial-statement-frauds-285x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27188%27%20height%3D%27198%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20188%20198%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27188%27%20height%3D%27198%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/financial-statement-frauds-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/financial-statement-frauds-768x807.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/financial-statement-frauds-800x841.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/financial-statement-frauds-974x1024.jpg 974w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a>I spend lots of time telling people what I do in my role as a forensic accountant. Put simply, I do fraud investigations (often for the victim, but sometimes the accused hires me), divorce financial analysis, and damages calculations for insurance and litigation matters.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes I find it&#8217;s fun (and necessary!) to talk about what I do NOT do. Here are a few things I don&#8217;t do:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"ember10048\" class=\"ember-view\"> Use illegal or unethical techniques to get information. I&#8217;m sorry that your soon-to-be ex-husband is a scumbag. I&#8217;m still not going to try to break into online accounts, pretend to be someone I&#8217;m not to get information, or otherwise violate all sorts of <a id=\"ember10054\" class=\"hashtag-link ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/topic\/?keywords=%23ethics\" target=\"_self\" data-control-name=\"update_hashtag\">#ethics<\/a> to get you the information you want or need.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"ember10048\" class=\"ember-view\">Provide therapy sessions. Most of the clients that I work with are upset, and with good reason. Someone has stolen from them. They&#8217;re going through a stressful divorce. They&#8217;re involved in expensive and time-consuming litigation. These are all very stressful. But I&#8217;m not a therapist. I&#8217;ll try to be understanding and considerate, but I have to draw a line. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"ember10048\" class=\"ember-view\">Business valuations. A lot of forensic accountants do business valuations&#8230; the kind of thing where you need to know the current value of a business if it was to be sold today. I just don&#8217;t do that. I&#8217;m not qualified to give an opinion on the value of a business and I&#8217;m not up on all the methods and standards that are used to do it. It&#8217;s just never been a part of my practice. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spend lots of time telling people what I do in my role as a forensic accountant. Put simply, I do fraud investigations (often for the victim, but sometimes the accused hires me), divorce financial analysis, and damages calculations for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2777],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forensic-accountant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-4KP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}